Ryan Robinson 🏠🔨

Lately I’ve been thinking about using this Twitter thing more for my businesses and seeing where it leads me. I’ll kick it off with an intro of where we are at this point: - Started 3 Businesses over the past 5 years with one of my best friends that I met in college - Both of us were average students that learned how to pass classes rather than learn information and graduated with Economics degrees - We both got W2 jobs immediately until landing in roofing sales roles (1099) - Started up our first Company, North Tarrant Christmas Lights, 5 years ago and have grown it to 180k/yr Biz - Started up our main Company, Upright Roofing and Construction, 2.5 years ago and have done 3m the first two years but we are expecting to hit 5m this year. - Started Outright Paintless Dent Repair this year, which hasn’t taken off like we’ve hoped but have done about 15k thus far.

@BalconesRoofing Should be disco since its barrel tile huh?

A two-hour roof inspection yesterday on 217 Bella Riva Drive on Lake Travis. Not sure what happened here but this property was absolutely insane – inside & out. Check out the listing: zillow.com/homedetails/21…

@ianncushing Roof

Roofing is super slept on when it comes to cold email lead gen If you own a roofing co and want to see how we are generating commercial roofing leads, comment "roof" and I will show you

@Hayden__Slack I did. And then proceeded to try quite a few different efforts beyond the initial. Feels close but not fully complete or trustworthy

@Ry__Rob Just drop this request into Claude itself.

I’m looking for some Claude help I’m super interested in the power of AI and play with it a decent amount but feel like my projects ask too much of it but see people do much cooler things. I’m looking to link Claude to my inbound invoices email, save the PDF, sort it to a mail folder, and then the tricky part is - I’d like it to scan the document for totals owed, input into my CRM system job folder based on address and then enter as a payment. Acculynx is the CRM for reference

This would likely work well for high wind events in roofing like hurricanes and tornados Would probably be fairly difficult to differentiate hail damage on roofs via satellite but there’s likely some end arounds. If there’s a way to pull historical data to trigger a “change event” I.e. this house was built in 2010, the roof was “changed” in 2018. Now we bring in hail mapping crossover and say build me a list of roofs 8+ years old if the hail was 1.25” or larger. Or 5+ years if 2.5” hail etc. @sodacitysimpson let’s build this

Okay, I'm about to make some of you SMB owners very rich with this post lol What if I told you... there's a way to have one sales guy do the work of 20. Let's say you own a roofing, fence, deck, or construction company... did you know that you can buy high resolution same day satellite imagery? Some of you may know that, roofers especially. The mega roofing companies like Roof Maxx do this, but they pay $35 to $50 PER ROOF to review for storm damage. They also pay companies a lot of money to monitor hail damage in areas. This is still a clunky method that is very expensive. Well fuck that... it's 2026 you guys. Now you can do it, but not only that... you can do it MUCH better and MUCH cheaper. Stop wasting your time and money sending dudes on the ground to go property scouting. This is how you do it... Buy the satellite data, but not per roof, buy the high res images of entire areas where the storm went through. It's like $500. Feed that data into Gemini 2.5 Pro. It's the best AI vision model available. Have it scope every property for homes with damage. Cross reference the flagged properties with parcel data and map a route for your sales guy to go direct to damaged properties only. BUT WAIT... It gets better... Vibe code an app that does it. Connect to NOAA and Open-meteo API. It's FREE dude. 1. Set up automated triggers for severe weather. 2. When a weather event is triggered, it calls to the satellite imagery provider API and pulls the images. 3. The images get picked up by Gemini 2.5 Pro and scanned. 4. Properties get flagged and address matched and triggers the next step 5. Nano Banana 2 reads the storm data to generate a specific storm event mailer and triggers the next step. 6. That mailer is sent through API to a Direct Mail provider with SAME DAY service. 7. Mailers hit the mailboxes before the other companies even get out of bed. BONUS is you didn't even have to get out of bed either. It's automatic man. 8. The addresses are batch scheduled and sent to your CRM for your sales rep to hit them directly. He better get up early. I built this for fun. It works. But I cheaped out my test with Google Satellite imagery because I don't own any of those types of companies man I'd like my Ferrari to be Red please. Thank You. 🫡

Moar plz

Tomorrow's hail outlook for the state looks pretty gnarly. Austin & San Antonio could be prime targets for large to very large hail if this threat creeps further to the southeast. Don't forget to bring your roofs inside! 😇

Gonna be wild seeing 8 Texas teams in the college football playoff.

@pestctrlguy @CollinJHumphrey It cost 25k to do, marked it up 40%

@CollinJHumphrey What on earth could possibly cost $35k here?

You’re telling me this is the same bathroom for under $35 thousand dollars? Ya that’s what I’m saying. Incredible right??

Texas Retail: 50% due when materials are dropped 50% due on completion, final job walk Sometimes 100% on completion if small, non complex Insurance: We do deductible + First insurance check day of install (might change to deductible due at contract signing) Final insurance check due when received from insurance, called depreciation check

Not sure if this applies in California but: What is the operating cash flow on a single $20k roofing job? Does the client pay you a deposit? When do they make final payment? When do you buy materials? When do you pay the sub? When do you pay sales commission to the rep who brought the deal?

If you are a roofer, please comment below I have a question for you

@irentdumpsters 😂😂😂

Wife bought me a expensive ass espresso machine No idea how to use it And I’m HYPER STIMMY MAXING TODAY She is at the coffee shop….. what?

@Ry__Rob BROOOOO

Happy Monday 😅

@TylerPurcell24 Some people just call me stupid

Oh cool, you’re a super fit single 35 year old with a 9-5 corporate job who can workout for 2 hours every day. I’ll take the fit entrepreneur dad with a 6, 3, and 1 year old all day. Nothing can stop this madman. He is the evolution of male dominance. His brain is not wired correctly. There is no losing for this man.

Woke up today a WINNER

@dylthorn @Ian_Allis0n @rampulla_andrew I would have quit after my first house

@Ry__Rob @Ian_Allis0n @rampulla_andrew Bro now imagine if it rained every day for months straight, how would you feel?

This year we're doing something totally different for Christmas light takedowns. Rather than labeling each house, we're pooling everything up and sorting by color. So each install will start fresh every year. Either going to be a great decision as we scale or cook us next year🤣

@dylthorn @Ian_Allis0n @rampulla_andrew There is no price high enough for trees 😂

@Ian_Allis0n @Ry__Rob @rampulla_andrew 500 is solid solo just roofs no dumb trees haha

@dylthorn @Ian_Allis0n @rampulla_andrew What do you feel the value of that used equipment is? Do you reuse it on new build installs? You guys not in Texas (everything is cheaper in Texas, like they say), what is your average net margin every year?

@Ry__Rob @Ian_Allis0n @rampulla_andrew Yeah all those things have def happened to me lol, on the other hand I now own like 100k bulbs, 50 wreaths, 50 boxes of mini lights and a bunch of cool stuff

Agree it’s not the best model for everyone. Provide a good service at a “decent” rate and they’ll return at ~90% Granted, most houses we do aren’t the ones your nephew could do solo. What is nice, is I can dispatch sub contracted crews without having a central hub to bring materials from. And I’ve never had a customer successfully say that “they thought they had more lights last year” or wrong color or we messed up their lights during the offseason because they’ve had them

@Ian_Allis0n @Ry__Rob @rampulla_andrew Horrible business model In my opinion customer gets their nephew to install the lights for half the price you have zero leverage. Every year I get 100+ calls of people who were sold the lights and want a cheaper price.

@Ian_Allis0n @dylthorn @rampulla_andrew I use the “multi application” clip, I call it the scorpion clip. It stays attached to the bulb on removal and it holds direction so even if the labeling is confusing, you can “read the clips” very easily

Same here. Customer keeps the product, lights go up the same every year in half an hour, no labels. I couldn’t imagine throwing them all together and taking the time to cut to size every year. But, I also install lights correctly using shingle tab instead of an all in one clip on each light so it’s easy to know what goes where. Keep it simple.